Vanity Fair articles from March 2008

Vanity Fair archives from March 2008

Twenty-Five Candles.
March 1, 2008... Byline: --GRAYDON CARTER This is a significant year for those of us at VANITY FAIR. It is the year we celebrate the 95th anniversary of the old V.F., which was started by Conde Nast and edited for more than two decades by his chum Frank...

No Country For Old Men.
March 1, 2008... Dressed to the nines in creations from Dior by John Galliano, designed exclusively for V.F., this month's cover stars are consummate shape-shifters. Facing a big 2008, all showed their most dazzling side to Annie Leibovitz CAPTION(S): ...

It's The Hitch In Hitchcock.(Alfred Hitchcock)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --JIM WINDOLF The director was a stickler for the details. V.F.' s team had to go to extraordinary lengths to reprise his most famous moments Alfred Hitchcock created some of the most arresting images in film history. For this...

Inside The War Zone.
March 1, 2008... Troop appreciation; mapping problems; pasts and politicians; knocking the Ivies; the fate of the forecast; suicide glorified; under Angie's spell; and more As a lifelong soldier, I was overwhelmed by the powerful piece by Sebastian Junger...

Fanfair.(Federico Fellini's 'The Book of Dreams')(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... 31 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE MARCH 2008 MIND TRIP Federico Fellini dreamed of being "in the big basket of a balloon together with Pope Paul IV" when "suddenly a marvelous creature wearing a bathing suit appeared, higher and...

March: The Cultural Divide.(Calendar)
March 1, 2008... Every weekend through March 30, the IFC Center in Manhattan's Greenwich Village will showcase the films of the acclaimed and controversial French director Louis Malle, a master not only of drama ( The Lovers; Au Revoir, Les Enfants ) but also...

Hot Type.(new books)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Byline: ELISSA SCHAPPELL Attention, patriotic parents of eighth-grade boys: given the current Republican timetable for exiting Iraq, you can rest easy, knowing your sons will still have the chance to serve there during the next...

Hooked On Comics.('The Ten-Cent Plague')(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --ELISSA SCHAPPELL In the wake of World War II, before TV started holding American homes hostage, comic books were all the rage. The bold artwork and irreverent, anti-authoritarian stance spoke to pre-rock-'n'-roll youth in a way...

From Russia With Love.(Kova & T clothing line)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --MEENAL MISTRY Muscovite "It girl" Dasha Zhukova and Christina Tang, both 26, the partners behind Kova & T, the buzzed-about label which is distinctly anti-glitz, cast as their muses sublime French- Vogue editors Carine Roitfeld...

Courting A Century Of Sneaks.(Converse Rubber Shoe Company)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --JULIAN SANCTON If Johnny Knoxville, Punky Brewster, and Paul McCartney ever met, they'd talk about their common footwear and probably little else. Launched in 1917 by the Converse Rubber Shoe Company--which celebrates its...

Ohhhh La La . . .
March 1, 2008... There are pinups, and then there is Pirelli. Since 1964, the Italian tire company has rewarded its most valued customers with its coveted annual calendar. It is a collector's item and a status symbol, and this month The Complete Pirelli...

Playing With Dolls.(stardoll.com)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... No Golden Globes? No red carpets? No problem. Get your celebrity-fashion fix, and help more than 100 of Hollywood's best dressed, like Drew Barrymore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Queen Latifah, and Kate Hudson, get prepped for the Big Night, or the...

Night-Table Reading.('The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,' 'Equations of Motion: Adventure, Risk, and Innovation,' and 'Out Stealing Horses')(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2008... THE TALK-SHOW HOSTS CONAN O'BRIEN The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Random House) "I'm enjoying this book because it confirms just about everything I have learned after 20 years of...

Private Lives: Phyllis Diller.
March 1, 2008... Byline: LISA EISNER PHOTOGRAPHS BY CATHERINE LEDNER On your list of "things to do before I die," right after seeing the Arctic polar bears, I suggest trying to weasel your way into one of Phyllis Diller's art openings. They're always at her...

The Rat Pack's Bespoke Style.(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --LISA EISNER S ammy Davis Jr. was a cat with flair. He wore the craziest tuxedo shirts you have ever seen--butter-cup yellow, no pleats, a gargantuan button-down collar that hugged the neck, single French cuffs with one side that...

On The Road Rich Evenings With Sondheim.(Stephen Sondheim)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --A. M. HOMES What happens when two titans of the Great White Way get together and talk? It becomes a show. New York Times columnist and former chief theater critic Frank Rich and composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim --whom Rich...

My Stuff.(Natalia Vodianova's favorite things)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Byline: NATALIA VODIANOVA N atalia Vodianova, the 26-year-old Russian supermodel who has been the face of Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, David Yurman, and Calvin Klein, among others, is more than just a beautiful woman. The mother of...

Midnight In The Sun.('Midnight Boom')(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --MICHAEL HOGAN Since the release of their first EP, in 2002, the Kills have presented music journalists with an irresistible package: gorgeous American girl (Alison Mosshart) and dangerous-looking British bloke (Jamie Hince) live...

Cat Power.('Cat on a Hot Tin Roof')
March 1, 2008... Byline: LESLIE BENNETTS PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD CORMAN CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF RETURNS TO BROADWAY When Tennessee Williams wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1955, segregation still reigned in the South,...

Ready For Their Close-Up.(celebrities' clothing lines)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... A new collection of celebrity-designed fashion takes center stage [euro] SPRING [euro] COLLECTIONS 2008 Natalie Portman LABEL: Natalie Portman designed 20 different shoe styles for Te Casan, which she debuted last month. LOOK:...

Nights Of Federico.(Federico Fellini's 'The Book of Dreams')(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --BRUCE HANDY Is there anything more boring than having to listen to other people tell you their dreams? No, no, a thousand times no, unless the raconteur is Federico Fellini, for whom we'll make a geniuses-only exception. After...

My Own Private Island.(Dellis Cay in the Turks and Caicos Islands)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --EDWARD HELMORE DELLIS CAY--AN ARCHITECTURAL HAVEN FOR SUN, SAND, AND SURF M arlon Brando sought refuge on his isle of Tetiaroa, in French Polynesia; John Wayne sunbathed on Taborcillo, his island off the coast of Panama....

Luxe Style.
March 1, 2008... Byline: --JONATHAN KELLY S ally Hershberger, known as the purveyor of the $800 coif, is bringing a little sass to the masses. Her new line, Supreme Head, is a collection of shampoos and conditioners, style primers and finishing products,...

Hot Looks.
March 1, 2008... Bat your eyelashes all day long with Shu Uemura's Mini Eyelash Curler.... Stay red-carpet ready with Prescriptives' AnyWear Multi-Purpose Makeup Stick S.P.F. 15.... Face the future with Estee Lauder's Re-Nutriv Ultimate Youth Creme...

Fairground.(debutants)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JONATHAN BECKER AROUND THE WORLD, ONE PARTY AT A TIME MARCH 2008 BELLES OF THE BALL On the evening of November 24, 2007, 23 young ladies, on the arms of their dashing escorts, made their international...

The Plot Sickens.(Hollywood writers' strike)
March 1, 2008... Behind the grim conflicts of the writers' strike is a grimmer reality: neither the picketers nor their executive foes can imagine a business without plot-driven narratives. But reality shows and YouTube are killing the Hollywood story For...

The Vietnam Oscars.('Coming Home' and 'The Deer Hunter')
March 1, 2008... Byline: BY PETER BISKIND Three years after the fall of Saigon, Hollywood finally dealt with Vietnam. And how. Produced by maverick talents amid creative chaos, Coming Home and The Deer Hunter split the industry, the critics, and the 1979...

The Game Has Changed.
March 1, 2008... Byline: BY FRANK DiGIACOMO PHOTOGRAPH BY ART STREIBER �[euro]� ILLUSTRATION BY LUCASARTS This summer, Xbox and PlayStation junkies will get to feel as if they've gone inside a Star Wars movie, one that in some ways has a mind...

The Demon Editors Of Fleet Street.(Vanity Fair Portraits)
March 1, 2008... Byline: JESSICA FLINT PHOTOGRAPH BY SNOWDON London has always been, in many ways, the capital of newspapers. Gone may be the fabled Fleet Street days, when neighboring national broadsheets and tabloids held court from the Strand to Ludgate...

Killer Instincts.
March 1, 2008... Byline: BY JASON ZINOMAN Amid the real-life violence of 1968, George Romero's Night of the Living Dead gave shocking birth to the modern horror movie. Romero, Tobe Hooper ( The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ), Wes Craven ( Last House on the...

Raising Obama.(Barack Obama)
March 1, 2008... Byline: BY TODD S. PURDUM PHOTOGRAPH BY JONAS KARLSSON Is he tough enough? That's the question being asked of Barack Obama. To those who have known the candidate since boyhood, it's not just those "dreams from my father" that make Obama a...

Albert Maysles.(Interview)
March 1, 2008... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY JULIAN DUFORT PATRICIA BOSWORTH It has been 50 years since Albert Maysles got his start behind the camera, with his brother, David, on sound. Together they redefined the documentary with their intensely personal films,...

Masters Of Photography Mario Testino.
March 1, 2008... CONTINUING TO CELEBRATE THE PAST 25 YEARS OF VANITY FAIR PHOTOGRAPHY, WE SHOWCASE THE PORTRAITS OF MARIO TESTINO. IN HIS WORK, WRITES DAVID FRIEND, TESTINO MAKES THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS FACES NEW AGAIN When he started in fashion...

All Is Vanities . . . Nothing Is Fair: Vanities.(Carice van Houten)(Interview)
March 1, 2008... Byline: KRISTA SMITH PHOTOGRAPH BY WAYNE MASER STYLED BY SARAJANE HOARE MARCH 2008 Carice van Houten AGE: 31. PROVENANCE: The Netherlands. GOT THE FULL ATTENTION OF PREVIOUSLY OBLIVIOUS HOLLYWOOD . . . as the star of Black Book...

The Vanities Dare.
March 1, 2008... THIS MONTH: THE PRIMARY POLLING-PLACE DARE ONE-POINT DARES Bring along an acoustic guitar and try to rally the gathered voters in a chorus of John Mellencamp's "Our Country." Standing the legally mandated 100-foot distance from...

In Character.(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Byline: WRITTEN, DIRECTED, AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY HOWARD SCHATZ ... STARRING WHOOPI GOLDBERG You're the ever obeisant wife of a charismatic televangelist, and you've just learned that a male prostitute is about to go public with his story...

Diary: Joe Eszterhas.(Diary entry)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --AS TOLD TO CRAIG BROWN How you can be like me. An executive whose wife I was screwing at the time came on to me. He wanted me to rewrite a movie about Queen Victoria of England. He appreciated the way I'd written roles for...

"You Can't Handle The Truth!".(movie taglines)(Brief article)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --LAWRENCE LEVI Our Oscar-Season Tagline Quiz 2007: A big year for verity in film, or just the laziest year ever for ad copywriters? Match the '07 movie release with its official tagline. Truth is the first casualty of...

Show Business: Survivor!
March 1, 2008... Byline: ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN HESHKA DEPARTMENT OF CAREER REHABILITATION CAPTION(S): START (Or, more precisely, start over!) Roll die to advance your game piece. WRITE A CHILDREN'S BOOK Advance one space if you actually have...

The "_" To The Stars!
March 1, 2008... Byline: --ADAM LEFF AND RICHARD RUSHFIELD L.A. INTELLIGENCE REPORT PSYCHIC TO THE STARS ***** COSMETIC SURGEON TO THE STARS ***** STYLIST TO THE STARS ***** YOGA GURU TO THE STARS ***** POLITICAL ADVISER TO THE STARS ...

The 2008: Hollywood Portfolio Hitchcock Classics.(Alfred Hitchcock)
March 1, 2008... Byline: TEXT BY JIM WINDOLF PORTFOLIO CAPTIONS BY NATHANIEL RICH ALFRED HITCHCOCK LEFT A PEERLESS LEGACY OF THE STYLISHLY MACABRE. KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, JAVIER BARDEM, SETH ROGEN, AND OTHER STARS CHANNEL ICONIC MOMENTS FROM THE DIRECTOR'S...

Jerry Weintraub Presents!(Interview)
March 1, 2008... Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY NORMAN JEAN ROY Jerry Weintraub may be too much for any magazine profile to handle: a showman whose career spans generations of legends; who had Lew Wasserman and Colonel Tom Parker as mentors; who put Elvis on the...

Brideshead Re-Revisited.(movie adaptation)
March 1, 2008... Byline: --JAMES WOLCOTT The Brideshead Revisited mini-series ravished television audiences in 1981. Could a big-screen version, reaching theaters this summer, be any less a pleasure? Evelyn Waugh's 1945 saga of decaying aristocracy and...

Mailer's Movie Madness.(Norman Mailer)(Biography)
March 1, 2008... Even before his first visit to Hollywood, as the lionized young author of The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer was obsessed by movies. In 1968, the year he published his Pulitzer-winning book The Armies of the Night, he released two...

The Right Fluff: A Guy's Guide To Chick Flicks.
March 1, 2008... Marriage and maturity have turned the author from a devotee of blood-soaked action films into a chick-flick connoisseur, always up for another rerun of Dirty Dancing or Legally Blonde. But is the genre going flat? Tracing its heritage--Joan...

Artist In Residence.
March 1, 2008... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT POLIDORI To the usual uproar--outrage, protests, eventual oohs and aahs --Julian Schnabel has planted a Pompeii-red palazzo atop a 19th-century factory building on the western edge of Greenwich Village. It may...

Here's To You, Mr. Nichols: The Making Of The Graduate.
March 1, 2008... Byline: SAM KASHNER Almost from the start, Mike Nichols knew that Anne Bancroft should play the seductive Mrs. Robinson. But the young film director surprised himself, as well as everyone else, with his choice for The Graduate' s misfit...

Sketchbook: Waterboarding Lite.
March 1, 2008... Byline: BY BRUCE HANDY "It depends on how it's done. It depends on the circumstances. It depends on who does it." -- Rudy Giuliani, at a town-hall meeting in Iowa, responding to a question about whether he considers waterboarding to be...

Credits.
March 1, 2008... FASHION COVER: AMY ADAMS'S, EMILY BLUNT'S, JESSICA BIEL'S, ANNE HATHAWAY'S, ALICE BRAGA'S, ELLEN PAGE'S, ZO' SALDANA'S, ELIZABETH BANKS'S, GINNIFER GOODWIN'S, AND AMERICA FERRERA'S DIOR BY JOHN GALLIANO clothing from Dior, N.Y.C., or call...

Joan Fontaine.(Interview)
March 1, 2008... Seven decades after she began her Hollywood and stage career, Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, 90, leads a quiet life at her California home, Villa Fontana. Here, the former screen darling ruminates on her beloved dogs, chastity,...

High On Hollywood.
March 1, 2008... NAVIGATING YOUR WAY THROUGH the GLAMOROUS FLURRY of OSCAR WEEK The SOCIAL WHIRL of OSCAR By PUNCH HUTTON On the cover: AMY ADAMS WEARS A TOP BY 3.1 PHILLIP LIM AND GLOVES BY CAROLINA AMATO. HAIR PRODUCTS BY NEXXUS. MAKEUP PRODUCTS...

L.a. Essentials What To Pack.(Los Angeles, California)(clothes, shoes and accessories)(List)
March 1, 2008... FOR HER J BRAND wide-leg jeans HAVERHILL bikini DEREK LAM romper ZAC POSEN dress SUPERGA sneakers PRADA flats OLIVER PEOPLES Harlot sunglasses Star-shaped barrettes FOR HIM PRADA stretch cotton...

Quick Fix.
March 1, 2008... Last-minute EMERGENCIES--SOLVED! For shoe repair, ARTURO'S SHOE FIX can stretch your shoe, repair a damaged stiletto, or dye the fabric to match your outfit. 9643 Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills; 310-278-9585 Need a new pair of...

The Looks Book On The Town.(skin care clinics, salons, and restaurants)(Directory)
March 1, 2008... The Looks Book When INNER BEAUTY just isn't enough FEBRUARY 2008 Appointments The SKIN DOCTORS DR. RAJ KANODIA 414 North Camden Dr. Beverly Hills 310-276-3106 HAROLD LANCER, M.D., F.A.A.D. 9735 Wilshire...

Camera-Ready.
March 1, 2008... FROM COUTURE to VINTAGE, the BEST of the RED CARPET FASHION PRADA prada.com 343 North Rodeo Dr. Beverly Hills 310-278-8661 GIORGIO ARMANI BOUTIQUE giorgioarmani.com 436 North Rodeo Dr. Beverly Hills 310-271-5555...

The Coveted Invitation.
March 1, 2008... WISH YOU WERE HERE THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: special writers' strike edition . . . Thursday The Old Guard--the HERRERAS, NANCY REAGAN, CONNIE WALD, REGIS and JOY, and DOMINICK DUNNE, among others--heads north of Sunset to BETSY...